Historic Garden Week at a Virginia Arboretum

Garden week tours will be led by Jan Sievers Mahon, Arboretum Director, and will focus on the arboretum's bulb collection, wild flowers, and flowering shrubs and trees. Tours will start at the Frances Plecker Education Center. Preregistration is not needed.

Earth Day Wildflower Walk: April 23, 10:00am

Historic Garden Week Tour: April 25, 1:00pm

Virginia Native Tree Tour: April 27, 1:00pm

Visitors to the Shenandoah Valley will find much to enjoy at the EJC Arboretum each year during Historic Garden Week in Harrisonburg. Choose a guided walking tours highlighting native wildflowers, Azaleas, flowering bulbs, or flowering trees. Or take in all these tours! For those who can't enjoy peak bloom beauty of nature by walking the paths, magnificent matched Belgium horses will carry visitors by carriage through the wooded trails just in time for peak spring bloom during Mother's Day weekend! Be sure to browse the arboretum website often and buy your carriage ride tickets early! And the arboretum hosts an Arbor Day Tree Sale, and hosts its annual Native Plant Sale in April. Don't miss these opportunities to enhance your garden knowledge, and enhance the beauty home garden with new trees and native botanicals!